Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] she have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relieved because she has been afraid that somehow it would have disappeared , she pulls out her key , but the driver 's door is unlocked . |
| 2 | It was Marguerite as she had been many years ago , and Jenna saw what her father had seen , what she herself saw now — the attraction of kindness , of calm good humour . |
| 3 | When he asked if he should fly out her answer had been a firm and uncompromising ‘ No ! ’ but now , as she glanced at Alain , she was not too sure if she had been wise . |
| 4 | Things had been ticking along nicely between them , just as long as she 'd been prepared to forget that she wanted more out of the relationship than a roll in the hay and a bright ‘ cheerio ’ at the airport . |
| 5 | As I watched her I thought Granny would have been proud if she 'd been alive to see Mary now . |
| 6 | They gave the bare details of Jenner 's life and career as far as she 'd been able to check it out — dates , addresses , all the useful stuff that Reynolds could work from — followed by a surprising amount of straight campus gossip . |
| 7 | She 's a grey figure by comparison , Lee thought , muted where she had been abrasive , withdrawn when she had been a firebrand . |